Adair Ferguson
- January 6, 2024
- Celebrity
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Adair Ferguson Biography
| Name | Adair Ferguson |
| Birthday | Oct 5 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Place Of Birth | Brisbane |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Adair Ferguson is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on October 5, 1955 in Brisbane, Australia. Adair Ferguson OAM, (born 5 October 1955) is an Australian former World Champion lightweight rower. She became Australia’s first female world champion rower in 1985 in only her second year of rowing.
Ferguson’s stellar rise at the 1985 nationals saw her selected to represent Australia at the 1985 World Rowing Championships at Hazewinkel. She beat her fancied Romanian rival Maria Micșa and in the process became Australia’s first ever female rowing world champion. She attempted to defend her title at Nottingham 1986 but finished fifth.
In 1986 she was admitted to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. In 1987 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services to rowing.
Ferguson won two selection trials for the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games – the New South Wales and Victorian titles. She was picked in that squad, went to Edinburgh but contracted a virus and was laid up in bed in the lead-up to the event. Her main competition was the New Zealand sculler, Philippa Baker who passed Ferguson with 800m to go. Ferguson summoned all her resources to get to the front and won the gold medal in a tight finish.
She was named the 1985 Australian Athlete of the Year; in achieving the honour she beat fellow nominees Jeff Fenech and Alan Border.
Adair Ferguson Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Celebrity |
| House | Living in own house. |
Adair Ferguson is one of the richest Rower from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adair Ferguson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ferguson made national selection in the late 1980s and raced the lightweight single scull at Bled 1989 and Lake Barrington 1990.
Ferguson had represented Queensland in cross country running before taking up rowing with the Commercial Rowing Club in Brisbane at the age of 29 and winning various Queensland titles in 1984, her first year.
In 1985, only her second season of rowing and her first as a sculler, she was undefeated throughout Australia and at the 1985 Australian Rowing Championships won the national lightweight single scull title and also raced in an open-weight double scull to second place. At the Interstate Regatta at those same championships she represented Queensland for the women’s national single sculling title and won the Nell Slatter Trophy. She repeated this feat in 1988 and 1990. She was the Australian lightweight sculls champion in 1985 and 1989; the heavyweight sculls champion in 1986; and shared the double sculls title in 1986 and 1988.
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